Friday, 30 November 2007

Baby Surprise Jacket

Sorry folks.

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Hi,

One of our customers alerted me to the baby surprise jacket pattern onyour blog. The Baby Surprise Jacket is a copyrighted pattern and may notbe reproduced without permission. Therefore, I must ask you to pleaseremove it from your site.

I realize you are running a knit along. We are fully supportive of thatand are happy people are fond of the baby surprise jacket pattern. Thepattern is available at a very reasonable price throughwww.schoolhousepress.com ($3 plus 2.50 shipping)

11.5" from neck seam to bottom hem17" from wrist to wrist9.5" across the back.

As for yardage, I can only estimate. The original skein had 550 yards and was 8 oz. The sweater was 4.5 oz, so approximately 310 yards were used. That weight includes the wooden buttons, though, so it'll be a little less.

Oh my god, please help me. I understand you had line-by-line instructions and tips. I am already stuck on the 7th row. I DO OWN THE PATTERN, PAID FOR IT IN TWO DIFFERENT EZ BOOKS. That's hopefully so you don't get into any trouble.

Can you please email me and help me out with some of my issues? I'd be very grateful.

hi! just wanted to say that i'm sorry you got that letter! i never saw the original post but if everyone CAN'T understand the copyrighted pattern and you've posted help to it, then well, maybe the pattern needs to be updated by schoolhouse? or they need to offer "free" help with it?

I'm posting to say I appreciate your effort to help...and agree with other posters that they shouldn't be so sensitive to people 'clarifying' the pattern. I have bought it too and am just sitting here in a quandry trying to figure it out.

So sorry to see you were forced to take down your helpful notes. Well, the e-pattern is now $10 (not $3), and I'm so surprised because I have already spent $30 for the book, "The Opinionated Knitter" just to get the pattern only to find it not so clear. I've bought 100+ patterns online and have NEVER seen one that expensive. I really do feel they are just trying to take advantage of us which is a grave disservice to EZ's legacy, and now I'm soured on the whole thing.

I have the pattern but cannot understand it. Can someone please help with more detailed instructions? I am at instruction #7 "K31, sl 1, k2 tog...etc" and I am stumped for the rest of it. It looks like I am supposed to know things that I simply do not know. Why were the helpful notes removed? If you own the book, then surely it is okay to get help with the cryptic instructions? My email is annaknowlson@gmail.com Thanks so much!

I eventually figured out how to complete garment but at great cost - £3 for original pattern which confused me totally so I sent off to USA for row by row instructions which were 10 dollars, then I was charged another six dollars postage. I felt ripped off. I will not buy from these people again. If you need help then try You Tube.

I eventually figured out how to complete garment but at great cost - £3 for original pattern which confused me totally so I sent off to USA for row by row instructions which were 10 dollars, then I was charged another six dollars postage. I felt ripped off. I will not buy from these people again. If you need help then try You Tube.

I also bought the pattern, with the wool, at a knitting shop in a town I no longer am living in. In trying to check through the pattern before I start knitting I realize that these are not the usual kind of instructions. What is a 'ridge'And next, after 22 what'?If I cast off 10 stitches from 152, how do I get to 158?I'm afraid I just don't speak the right language to attempt this pattern. Can anyone help me?Jeannie

Just leaving a note to say that I also have had a few struggles with this pattern that I purchased from Schoolhouse Press. I have emailed them and have had very fast responses from them with full clarifications of any questions I have had. Don't hesitate to email them with your questions. With that being said, I wish your notes were still available to read.

I do wish people wouldn't get so sensitive over a knitting pattern. surely people can help other people out in the knitting and crochet world, after all it's just a knitting pattern. I do hope all you knitters found the help you needed. I've made the jacket several times, and started a new one last night, the first in over three years, so even I had to re read the pattern again and again. It isn't very clear. and a Ridge is two rows, your decrease and knit row. so 2 rows is one ridge, 10 rows is 5 ridges.